Despite Fox News’ best efforts, last night the long awaited/debated/false information circulated, health care bill passed. Still to be determined is if this bill will be the catalyst for change that we’ve been promised over the last few months, or not, but I do feel confident in saying: Barack Obama is not going to euthanize your grandmother. Read more
The Sinatra lyric…? Anyone?
Anyways.
This will be a quick post – I’ll let the videos do the talking. But this is just a reminder of how dangerous it is when we instill our faith in the media as an objective source of information. By far and away the most influential television news source, Fox News, continually bends reality to fit their ideals. Want proof? Jon Stewart reports…
And Fox News’ response…
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Sean Hannity Apologizes to Jon | ||||
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There are very few TV shows that I go out of my way to watch. I try to stay up-to-date with current events in the news, and I of course make time for the occasional comedy (not necessarily in that order). The Daily Show is a perfect hybrid of the two. I’m all about multi-tasking.
As for the quality of content, in my humble opinion, Jon Stewart provides better news than what you get on around the clock news networks, i.e. CNN, MSNBC, and of course Fox News (the #1 news network – once again proving that bigotry is still fashionable). Dear CNN, I didn’t turn your station on to see what people are Twittering. I can go to Twitter for that. Read more